Thursday, July 7, 2016

Preparing For ON THE BLOCK

So, it's never too early to start working on your logline for ON THE BLOCK.  Craft it, tear it apart, send it to your reading buddies for more tearing apart, revise it, shine it up.

Remember that THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 is submission day.  You've got 2 months!

Here's a little help:

WRITING YOUR LOGLINE

CRAFTING YOUR LOGLINE

WORDS OF WISDOM FROM OUR LOGLINE GURU

MORE LOGLINE WISDOM FROM HOLLIY BODGER

AND A FINAL CHUNK OF LOGLINE WISDOM FROM HOLLY BODGER

Hopefully you will find the above links helpful.  Remember that a well-crafted logline is like a tiny, high-impact synopsis of your story.  It is NOT a blurb, a summary, or an actual synopsis.  For the context of this contest, think of your logline as a micro-query.  It's going to grab my attention so that I eagerly read the words that follow.

Please ask your ON THE BLOCK questions below.  I'm already getting excited to read your submissions!

4 comments:

  1. Last ON THE BLOCK, you didn't want people who had been Bakers Dozen entrants to participate. Will we be back in for this round? Fingers crossed.

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  2. Shoot, didn't mean to be "unknown." That question was from me, Judy Mintz.

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    1. I don't know--"unknown" does lend an air of mystery. ;)

      Since Baker's Dozen was almost 2 years ago, yes, you may enter.

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  3. How many words do we have at our disposal for loglines?

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